across the cascades and in through the sear ras. temperatures close to the seasonal average. 36 i think in new york is about a degree or two below average. 29 degrees in chicago. tomorrow, betty, february 2nd. groundhog. this little bugger is going to jump out of his little hole there in punxsutawney, pennsylvania, and do his thing. this is what he's done the last couple years. 2006, saw his shadow. that means winter. early spring in -- these are all the forecasts. i should mention that really the accuracy is not very good. >> are you saying he's not doing a very good job as his one thing of the year to do? he can't even do that well? >> quite honestly it's more job security for me. if we get a rodent to predict weather more accurately than we could it would be a bad thing. >> smart think ing. we understand that. maybe you've heard of this. we just talked about it a second ago. the animal rights group peta